Silent Spring
2020-02-11
Mei Ng, Chairperson, Friends of the Earth (HK)
60 years ago, Rachel Carson conducted field study and wrote her book “Silent Spring” (《寂靜的春天》）published in 1962 to expose the environmental risks of DDT insecticide that killed birds, eagles, bees and wildlife and posed health threat to human in her U.S. homeland. In the ending chapter, she urged the rethink about future of mankind by minimising chemical abuse and ecological degradation.